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CHAPTER 15.
1 NOW I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which
I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand;
2 By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after
what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also
received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the
third day, according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen by Cephas; and after that by the
eleven.
6 Then he was seen by more than five hundred brethren
at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen by James, then by all the
apostles.
8 And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one
born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy
to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his
grace in me hath not been void, but I have laboured more abundantly than all
they: yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
11 For whether I, or they, so we preach, and so you
have believed.
12 Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from
the dead, how do some among you say, that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then
Christ is not risen again.
14 And if Christ be not risen again, then is our
preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God:
because we have given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ;
whom he hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.
16 For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ
risen again.
17 And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is
vain, for you are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ, are
perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are
of all men most miserable.
20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, the
firstfruits of them that sleep :
21 For by a man came death, and by a man the
resurrection of the dead.
22 And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall
be made alive.
23 But every one in his own order: the firstfruits
Christ, then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.
24 Afterwards the end, when he shall have delivered up
the kingdom to God and the Father, when he shall have brought to nought all
principality, and power, and virtue.
25 For he must reign, until he hath put all his
enemies under his feet.
26 And the enemy death shall be destroyed last: For
he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith,
27 All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he
is excepted, who put all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then
the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him,
that God may be all in all.
29 Otherwise what shall they do that are baptized for
the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? why are they then baptized for
them?
30 Why also are we in danger every hour?
31 I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren,
which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
32 If (according to man) I fought with beasts at
Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and
drink, for to morrow we shall die.
33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good
manners.
34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the
knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame.
35 But some man will say: How do the dead rise again?
or with what manner of body shall they come?
36 Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not
quickened, except it die first.
37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body
that shall be; but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.
38 But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every
seed its proper body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is
the flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, another of fishes.
40 And there are bodies celestial, and bodies
terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and another of the
terrestrial.
41 One is the glory of the sun, another the
glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from
star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown
in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption.
43 It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory. It
is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power.
44 It is sown a natural body, it shall rise a spiritual
body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is
written:
45 The first man Adam was made into a living soul;
the last Adam into a quickening spirit.
46 Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that
which is natural; afterwards that which is spiritual.
47 The first man was of the earth, earthly: the
second man, from heaven, heavenly.
48 Such as is the earthly, such also are
the earthly: and such as is the heavenly, such also are they that
are heavenly.
49 Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly,
let us bear also the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood
cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess
incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed
rise again: but we shall not all be changed.
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise again
incorruptible: and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption; and
this mortal must put on immortality.
54 And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then
shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in
victory.
55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is
thy sting?
56 Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is
the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and
unmoveable; always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour
is not in vain in the Lord.
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